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That's essentially what I ended up having to do, but keep hoping that I've missed something.
I also find that people seem to ignore this route, assuming people are fine with public dns pointing at your home ip and http/https ports open.
Gotta live on the edge, man. Open up your router. All ports. Firewalls are for pansies. Connect your laptop directly to the modem. Enable
ssh
andrdp
. What could go wrong?You can setup a VPS between the internet and your home network to limit the exposition of your home network. When a client pings yourdomain.com, it sees the ip of the VPS and not the IP of your home network.
Otherwise, a VPN + home CA server will make your home network accessible and encrypted as well